Title :
Excitation of discrete X-waves in nonlinear waveguide arrays
Author :
Lahini, Yoav ; Frumker, Eugene ; Silberberg, Yaron ; Droulias, Sotiris ; Hizanidis, Kyriakos ; Morandotti, Roberto ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. of Complex Syst., Weizmann Inst. of Sci.
Abstract :
We present experimental evidence for the formation of X-waves in nonlinear AlGaAs waveguide arrays. These results agree with numerical simulations based on the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation with an appropriate temporal dispersion term
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; Schrodinger equation; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; nonlinear differential equations; optical arrays; optical solitons; optical waveguides; AlGaAs; discrete X-wave excitation; discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation; discrete solitons; nonlinear waveguide arrays; temporal dispersion; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Shape; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278872
